Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Should men give ear unto thee only? Thou wilt laugh other men to scorn; and shall nobody mock thee again?

New American Standard Bible

“Shall your boasts silence men?
And shall you scoff and none rebuke?

King James Version

Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

Holman Bible

Should your babbling put others to silence,
so that you can keep on ridiculing
with no one to humiliate you?

International Standard Version

Will your irrational babble silence people, and when you mock them, will you escape without being shamed?

A Conservative Version

Should thy boastings make men hold their peace? And when thou mock, shall no man make thee ashamed?

American Standard Version

Should thy boastings make men hold their peace? And when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

Amplified


“Should your boasts and babble silence men?
And shall you scoff and no one put you to shame?

Bible in Basic English

Are your words of pride to make men keep quiet? and are you to make sport, with no one to put you to shame?

Darby Translation

Should thy fictions make men hold their peace? and shouldest thou mock, and no one make thee ashamed?

Julia Smith Translation

Shall thy empty talks cause men to be silent? and wilt thou deride and none making ashamed?

King James 2000

Should your lies make men hold their peace? and when you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?

Lexham Expanded Bible

Should your loose talk put people to silence? {And when you mock, shall no one put you to shame}?

Modern King James verseion

Should your lies make men silent? And will you mock and no one make you ashamed?

NET Bible

Will your idle talk reduce people to silence, and will no one rebuke you when you mock?

New Heart English Bible

Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?

The Emphasized Bible

Shall, thy pratings, cause men to hold their peace? When thou hast mocked, shall there be none to put thee to shame?

Webster

Should thy falsehoods make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

World English Bible

Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?

Youngs Literal Translation

Thy devices make men keep silent, Thou scornest, and none is causing blushing!

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
בּד 
Bad 
Usage: 5

חרשׁ 
Charash 
Usage: 74

men
מת 
Math 
Usage: 21

חרשׁ 
Charash 
Usage: 74

and when thou mockest
לעג 
La`ag 
Usage: 18

References

Easton

Man

Context Readings

Zophar's First Response To Job

2 "Should not he that maketh many words, be answered? Should he that babbleth much, be commended therein? 3 Should men give ear unto thee only? Thou wilt laugh other men to scorn; and shall nobody mock thee again? 4 Wilt thou say unto God, 'The thing that I take in hand is perfect, and I am clean in thy sight'?

Cross References

Job 17:2

Froward men are with me, and mine eye must continue in the bitterness of them.

Job 12:4

Thus, he that calleth upon God, and whom God heareth, is mocked of his neighbour; the godly and innocent man is laughed to scorn.

Job 13:4

As for you, ye are workmasters of lies, and unprofitable physicians altogether.

Job 13:9

Shall that help you, when he calleth you to reckoning? Think ye to beguile him, as a man is beguiled?

Job 15:2-3

"Should a wise man's answer be as the science of the wind, and fill his belly with the wind of the east?

Job 21:3

Suffer me a little, that I may speak also, and then laugh my words to scorn, if ye will.

Job 24:25

Is it not so? Who will then reprove me as a liar, and say that my words are nothing worth?"

Job 34:7

Where is there such one as Job, that drinketh up scornfulness like water?

Psalm 35:16

With the flatterers were busy mockers, who gnashed upon me with their teeth.

Psalm 83:16

Make their faces ashamed, O LORD, that they may seek thy name.

Jeremiah 15:17

I dwell not among the council of scorners, neither is my delight therein: but I dwell only in the fear of thy hand, for thou hast filled me with bitterness.

2 Thessalonians 3:14

If any man obey not our sayings, send us word of him by a letter: and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed:

Titus 2:8

and with the wholesome word which cannot be rebuked, that he which withstandeth may be ashamed, having no thing in you that he may dispraise.

Jude 1:18

how that they told you that there should be beguilers in the last time, which should walk after their own ungodly lusts.

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